How Faith Breaks Your Thinker
APRIL 10, 2018 BY NEIL CARTER
"In this post I’m going to take a handful of well-known logical fallacies and show how growing up in church teaches you to accept these as “just the way things are.” My intent is to illustrate how faith normalizes bad thinking, leaving us vulnerable to manipulation by people and institutions whose chief purposes are self-serving and often deleterious for the rest of us."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I have found that many believers have never confronted many of the beliefs of their religion.They just have never given thought to address them but accepted them because that was the thing to do. It is amazing that they have accepted a practice just because they were brought up this way and assume they must follow or be rejected from their society.It is these same people who vote the way their parents have without thinking .
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I agree, religious fervor to be banal, puts words of arcane hope ahead of logic.
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